The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-03-24
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house.
MRs. LOGAN is posted by many begging
letters.
RETURN Of the untidy dragging skirts
is threatened. -
sPoSoEs have been discovered In the
lake Of Chautnuqua
soMK Georgians get 800 bushels Of swee,
potatoes out OF an acre.
Mus, DnrsE refused 10 take OF her hustle
before going TO the galows.
The antlcrs of go elk wore shipped from
Oregon TO England last year.
SAM, JosEs preached twice at Toronto,
recently making $},C0O thereby. VI
A "NoTnER Of triplets" writes to Mrs.
Hendricks for money 10 buy COW.
No Mans Land, Kss, aud the Slate Of
Connecticut are about the same size.
JupoE MAssEr, Of Douglassville, Ca,
killed eleven partridges at one shot.
The three Cole brothers. Of Harrison,
Ga, have their hearts on the right side
IT would be well II experts were To ex.
anime railroad bridges otfWs tho accidents
A WELL NJ Yahutsk, Siberia, has been
estimated to be frozen to depth Of 0i2
feet.
THEoDoRE TrLroS is living in Paris and
deyoting. himself in part to literary pur-
suits.
ALLEcEp corruption In the municipal
Affairs Of Brooklyn is being investi-
gated.
Tux King Of Italy now has whole Pull.
man car To himself when he wants 70
travel.
A TWENTY BIGnT-ToED cat, with one vel
low and one green eye exhibited in New
Haven.
To MAINTAIN peace for tbs next seven
years Germany is 10 have an army Of 4Gs,-
200 men
MRs. BAYARD TAILoR and her daughter
Lillian have returned To Germany 10 reside
permanently
JEEREHsoS DAVIS says he Is too old To
travel, and never expects TO be IN Wash
ingtoh again.
literary ambitions and is intending TO pub
lish book soon.
An apple treo over 100 years old and -four
and half feet in diameter, has been cut
down In Lyme, Conn.
THIRTEEN OF the noted twenty passes o
the Rocky Mountains are more than 10000
feet above tho sea level
WoRK on the steam cruisers. Boston,
Atlanta mad Chicago, has been suspended
for lack OF appropriation,
SGNcE the Adjournment Of Congress
marble bust OF John e. Calhoun has boon
placed in the senate gallery.
CARDINAL MANNiSo has henrtily indorscd
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
toward the knights Of Labor.
MAMIE DryALi. notorious courtcsan Of
Indiann and Tennessee, will reform since
shc has been left u large fortune
Tnr Louisville and Nashville will build
this year l3i miles OF new railroad, Of
which lo4 miles win be in Kentucky.
A VILLAGE, suburban 10 Atlanta, Ga, and
70 be exclusively for colorcd pcopls, has
been laid out and Is TO be incorporated.
CHARLES IL. HRIsER, an umbrella mcnder
In Pittsburgh, has inherited fortune OF
$4,000 from cousin who died in Aus.
tralla
The President has given his check for
VIM " tAN AAAltA iNI AUt tTtEllOn UI
monument TO the late Vice, President Hen.
bricks
TnK inventor OF tho rcpcating.rine re.
Gently adopted for the Austrian army has
been decorated by Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The name Dakota Is a corruption OF "ra.
hn sota,n meaning many heads--the cranl-
ums OF buffaloes being scattered thick on
all the trails
ASoUTH CAROLINA mother has record
OF seventeen children In nine years. The
first was solitary voyager Tho others
came In pairs.
1T costs the Government for each United |
States Senator 5000 year salary and |
s5,Go7 year additional for attendants and
incidental expenses.
Tn President, treasurer and counsellor |
ofthc "British-Amcrican Claim Agency,m |
were arrested In New York, few days |
ago, charged with fraud.
AT Detroit, Mich, Fred Frisbeo said TO |
his landladyi III you insist on mo paying
my board bill ! viii kill myself" She in
sisted, He shot himself.
THE widow of Garibaldi lives in quiet
street of Turin, the walls Of her little par
lcr covered with flags, medals and other
memcntoes Of the dead hero.
AK inmate OF the Middletown CN.Y1
Asylum is worth 100000 He became in.
sane over religion, and imagines he is
President OF the United States.
Nh, CosNERY, the new secretary Of lie.
cation 10 Mexico, will leave for his post
about the last of this month. Mr.. Connery
will collect the data for history OF Mex
leo.
JosEPH CARTER, Of Roclslesstown, N. j.,
recently butchered thirty remarkably fno
hogs. Ihe Iightost weighed eos pounds the
heaviest SD; and the total weight was
2l3S4 pounds
JAMES TAYLOR, while digging well on
his farm near Excelsior, Wis, found In
bed of gravel twenty feet below the sur
face a lot Of beautiful amothysts and one
very large and valuable ruby.
PEorLE who buy fancy candy and find it
tobe very sticky may lay this fattering
TO their souls, namely; That
they arc eating glucose, which is the out
put OF cornstarch and sulphuric acid.
On one Of the principal streets OF Thorn
aston, Ga, the same room is occupied by
physician and shoemaker-the physicians
office being in front and the shoemaker's